Improvement in sad-irons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i FREDERICK MYERS, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVEMENT m sAo-iRons.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,612, dated March11, 1873.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK MYERs, of New York city, in the county andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSad-Irons, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a prolongation of the handle beyond the heel ofthe iron, to constitute, in connection with pins or legs inserted in theheel, a stand, upon which the iron may rest on the table when hot toprotect the table from the heat of the iron. I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved sad-iron with a part shownin section. Fig. 2 is a rear-end elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig.4 is a side elevation of the iron resting on the stand, and Fig. 5 is asection of Fig. l on the line or w.

A represents the sad-iron. B represents a strong standard rising up fromthe point of the iron, being cast together with it. On the top is atenon, O, with a rivet-hole, both formed in the casting. D is a lightopen-skeleton handle with a mortise in one side, near one end, adaptedto receive the tenon O for attaohing the handle to the iron. The mortiseand tenon are both tapered, and they are fastened by a pin, E, whichdraws them snugly together. A slight concavity is formed in the top ofthe tenon, so that it will rest on the bottom of the mortise at thecorners to prevent any looseness or shackling of the handle. The mortiseand the pin-hole through the handle are also formed in the casting ofthe handle, so that no finishing is required except the riveting of thepin. The sad-iron and the handle being thus formed separately, can bemolded in the simplest manner of moldin g patterns for casting, and aretherefore made more cheaply than by the more expensive method of firstcasting the handle and then attaching it 'to the iron by molding it withthe ends projecting into the mold for the iron and casting the latteraround them. The handle being attached to the iron at one end onlyadmits of a prolongation of it at the other end beyond the heel of theiron, as clearly shown in the drawing, so that the handle willconstitute one leg of a stand of three legs, the other two of which areformed by pins H, inserted in or cast on, or otherwise fastened to theheel of the iron for supporting it in the position represented in Fig.4, when it is hot, to protect the table and preventthe escape of heat.

An ordinary sad-iron handle may, of course, be bent and extendedrearward, so as to serve in the same way for one of the legs of a stand,or itimay be cast together with a leg on it; but I consider this a moresymmetrical construotion.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the sad-iron A, standard B,handle D, and legs H, thehandle being extended to form a leg,substantially as specified.

FREDERICK MYERS. Witnesses:

R. A. VAN BENssELAER, JAS. ATKINSON.

